Humble BTCforJoe, you are helping low ranking members to farm merits, if you remove the merit and cash prizes from your challenge, nobody would participate. if they wont participate, they are there to farm merits then.
That's a weird statement coming from someone who was trying to use merit for doing tasks:
Provide information and receive merits from the most reputable source. :/.
If my signature didn't pay for my posts, I wouldn't show it either.
(I do show my avatar for free though)There's nothing wrong with giving an incentive to post quality.
It wont matter if I'm a source or not, if BTCforJoe is offended by my posts, he could have reported them
"Offending" someone isn't against the rules, and in a time where anybody can be offended by anything, I think that's a good thing.
But, I also think it's a good thing to at least try to be polite. It just makes the forum in general a nicer place.
You should report that thread to moderators. The moderators are the ones who have the authority to decide what to do about his campaign, not the merit sources.
There are no forum rules against basically anything you can do with your sMerit, so moderators won't interfere.
I have merited 300+ users
I counted 418 last Friday to be exact.